It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's… A Hero of the Bulgarian Revolution?

"The [Bulgarian] government opened a museum Sept. 19 to showcase some of the more shameful sides of Bulgaria's communist past through wacky art and kitsch sculptures. Bulgaria is the latest ex-Soviet bloc country to open such a collection, and its Museum of Socialist Art is also the biggest, the government says.

'We want to close this period. We're trying to kill the bogeyman and put it in the museum,' said Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, as he took a reporter on a tour of the place. 'A lot of people here have a romanticized view of communist times and we need to show the unvarnished truth.'"  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The Wall Street Journal
On:  09/28/11
Website:  http://online.wsj.com

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